American architect. Meier received a bachelor of architecture from Cornell University in 1957. After graduation, he worked at a number of New York offices including Skidmore, Owings and Merrille (1959-60) and Marcel Breuer and Associates (1960-1963). In 1963, he formed his own office and began to garner a reputation for modernist residences, such as the Saltzman House. Meier was a member of the New York Five (or the "Whites"), architects who advocated a return to "the formalism of early modern rationalist architecture" and whose work was exhibited at MoMA in 1969. Meier has since received a number of large institutional commissions including the J. Paul Getty Arts Center (1985-1997). He received the Pritzker Prize in 1984. Throughout his career, he has taught at institutions such as the Cooper Union, Yale, Princeton and Harvard.